We’ve bought observe and singletrack, Gran Path and the Buckeye Path, Silver Rush and Silverton.
It’s one other enjoyable mashup of one of the best from the previous weekend.
Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour – Cote d’Azur, France
There have been three extremely distances races on the occasion, however the 30k race was a part of the Skyrunner World Collection and ran as probably the most aggressive. Each 30k race winners set new course information.
Leire Fernández (Spain) edged out Maria Christen (Switzerland) to win the ladies’s race in 3:30. Christen was 62 seconds again in 3:31. The pair broke away from everybody else and Martina Cumerlato (Italy) was a distant third in 3:39.
Leire Fernández on her technique to successful the 2023 Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour 30k. Picture: Christian Retaggi
The lads sprinted it out with each Damien Humbert (France) and Shoma Otagiri (Japan) ending in 2:46. They have been solely six seconds aside, with Humbert in first. Sebastian Poesy (France) was simply over a minute again in third at 2:47. Poesy gained final 12 months’s race and was the previous course-record holder.
Damien Humbert, the 2023 Extremely Path Côte d’Azur Mercantour 30k males’s winner. Picture: Christian Retaggi
Silver Rush 50 Mile – Leadville, Colorado
Nearly 800 runners raced 50 miles on the high-altitude course. The course ran out and again, totally on dust roads, and picked up 7,503 ft of elevation achieve.
Devon Yanko outran Alisyn Hummelberg on the entrance of an in depth ladies’s race. Barely three minutes cut up the pair on the end with Yanko successful in 7:55 to Hummelberg’s 7:58. Third-place Barrett Grey completed in 8:29.
The lads have been even nearer. The primary 4 have been lower than three minutes aside. Brad Miles escaped the group to win in 7:01, and Will Murray was solely 54 seconds again in second at 7:02. After which Joel Shores was 66 seconds behind Murray in 7:03 for third.
Mount Marathon Race – Seward, Alaska
It was the race’s ninety fifth 12 months, all the time on July 4 for a 5k journey up and down Mount Marathon. This 12 months’s run was particularly wet and muddy.
Girls
Christy Marvin was second to the highest, 38 seconds behind then-leader Meg Inokuma, however then ran her down on the best way again to city. Marvin completed in 52:52, her third win at this race, and Inokuma was second in 53:07. Marvin additionally gained in 2013 and 2016. Denali Strabel had the day’s greatest downhill and that pushed her to 3rd in 54:21. All three of the rostrum finishers have been from Palmer, Alaska, three hours north.
In June Klaire Rhodes was twenty first on the Path World Championships 40k race, and she or he completed fourth right here in 54:52.
The 2023 Mount Marathon Race top-five ladies (l-to-r): 5. Sophie Wright, 3. Denali Strabel, 2. Meg Inokuma, 4. Klaire Rhodes, and 1. Christy Marvin. Picture: Matias Saari
Males
On July 1, David Norris was second on the Cirque Collection race in Utah. He made it to Alaska in time for the July 4 Mount Marathon Race and gained for the fourth time. Norris, who set the course report at 41:26 in 2016, gained this 12 months in 44:51. Norris additionally gained in 2018 and 2021.
David Norris takes the win on the 2023 Mount Marathon Race. Picture: Mick Dees
Darren Thomas and Lars Arneson have been second and third in 46:35 and 46:44, respectively.
Taylor Turney completed ninth total however set a brand new downhill course report at 9:54. It was six seconds higher than Eric Strabel’s outdated downhill report from 2013, and it was 68 seconds quicker than anybody else coming down this 12 months.
Amongst decrease 48ers, Andy Wacker bought to the highest fifth and completed sixth in 48:27. Zach Miller was eleventh up, however completed twenty second in 51:25, and Paddy O’Leary was equally challenged on the downhill towards a Twenty third-place 51:52 run.
Badwater 135 Mile – Loss of life Valley, California
Some 100 baddies chased the white line by Loss of life Valley, and 89 bought to the end on the base of Mount Whitney.
Girls
Ashley Paulson was sensational. Paulson was the race’s total winner, and a repeat ladies’s winner. She gained the last word lead late and completed in 21:44. That’s manner higher than the 24:09 outdated course report she ran final 12 months. Solely 2019 males’s winner Yoshihiko Ishikawa (Japan) has ever run quicker, and his 21:33 is simply barely quicker than what Paulson ran this 12 months.
Second-place Sonia Ahuja completed in 25:42, a time that may win this race most years, and third-place Maree Connor completed in 27:49.
[Editor’s Note: Ashley Paulson served a six-month doping sanction, in 2015 and 2016, due to a doping violation in triathlon for a positive test for ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM).]
Males
Longtime chief Simen Holvik (Norway) gained the boys’s race in 22:28. The aforementioned Ishikawa was second in 23:52 and Harvey Lewis was third in 27:06. It was Lewis’s twelfth consecutive Badwater end.
Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB – St. Bernard, Switzerland
It was the race’s 14th 12 months and there have been some 3,000 runners throughout its a number of totally different races.
The 140k (87 miles) race went off at 10:00 p.m. Among the many 350 starters of this longest distance, solely 208 completed the difficult course. Corine Kagerer and Mathieu Clément, each of the host nation, gained in 25:30 and 20:16. Clément gained the Canyons by UTMB 100 Mile in April in a dash. He had time for a extra leisurely end right here, 61 minutes higher than anybody else. Kagerer was even additional forward, successful by 64 minutes.
Katarzyna Solińska (Poland) and Thibaut Garrivier (France) gained the 76k race in 10:34 and 9:00.
Holy cow, Marcela Vašínová (Czech Republic) likes to race. She raced the Path World Championships 80k on June 9, gained the Minotaur Skyrace in Canada two weeks later, after which gained the 50k right here in 5:29. Daniel Antonioli (Italy) led the boys in 4:38.
Marcela Vašínová wins the 2023 Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB 50k. Picture: Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB
Daniel Antonioli takes the win on the 2023 Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB 50k. Picture: Path Verbier St. Bernard by UTMB
Val D’Aran by UTMB – Lleida, Spain
The 100-mile race was stopped earlier than anybody completed because of antagonistic climate.
The 110k reduce brief too, however 47 runners bought to the end earlier than it was stopped. The primary 4 ladies have been among the many finishers group, and Azara García (Spain) triumphed in 14:14. Mari Klakegg Fenre (Norway) and Núria Picas (Spain) have been second and third in 14:38 and 15:32, respectively. Raul Octavian Butaci (Romania) was the boys’s winner in 12:45. Alban Berson (France) was second in 12:57, and Sebastian Krogvig (Norway) was third in 13:12.
Everything of the 55k podiums was full of Spanish runners. Oihana Kortazar lined the observe in 6:32, quarter-hour quicker than second place, and males’s winner Raúl Criado completed in 5:41.
Gran Path Courmayeur – Courmayeur, Italy
The race’s eleventh version hosted 1,500 runners from 40 international locations for its races in entrance of Mont Blanc. Italian runners, nonetheless, gained each race.
Lisa Borzani and Simone Corsini gained the 100k race in 17:28 and 15:02.
Lisa Borzani breaks the tape to win the 2023 Gran Path Courmayeur 100k. Picture: Alessandro Zambianchi
Simone Corsini, the 2023 Gran Path Courmayeur 100k males’s champion. Picture: Alessandro Zambianchi
The 55k winners Giuditta Turini and Gianluca Galeati completed in 6:36 and 5:35.
Fabiola Conti and Mattia Reggidori triumphed within the 30k at 3:22 and a pair of:57.
Restonica Path by UTMB – Corte, France
These races have been all on Corsica, a mountainous French island within the Mediterranean Sea.
The 100-mile winners Eva Marie Sperger (Germany) and Lambert Santelli (France) completed in 20:59 and 15:15. Santelli was 85 minutes higher than his closest pursuer.
Louise Serban-Penhoat (France) and Thibaut Baronian (France) gained the 50k in 3:59 and three:11, respectively.
Extra Races and Runs
Brisbane Path Extremely – Brisbane, Australia
The race was a part of the Spartan Path World Championships. Cecilia Mattas (Australia) and Piotr Babis (Poland) gained the 100-mile race in 22:23 and 18:59, and Courtney Gilfillan (Australia) and Ben Duffus (Australia) gained the 30k in 3:02 and a pair of:36. Full outcomes.
Sinister 7 Extremely – Crowsnest Go, Alberta, Canada
Rugged and distant within the Canadian Rockies, the race celebrated 100-mile winners Claudia Blandford and Scott Cooper in 25:58 and 19:16. The 50-mile winners Mandi Goudie and Tristan Chart completed in 10:15 and eight:57, and Emilie Mann and Brandon Miller gained the 50k in 5:22 and 4:15. Full outcomes.
Knee Knackering 50k – North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Chessa Adsit-Morris and Brandon Gardiner gained the longtime race in 5:20 and 4:42. Full outcomes.
Ultramook 50k – Tillamook, Oregon
Madalyne Staab and Kyle Peterson set new course information in 4:47 and three:39. Full outcomes.
Siskiyou Out Again – Ashland, Oregon
Official outcomes aren’t but out, however social media factors to Timothy Olson turning again the clock to win the 50-mile race. Can somebody share who gained the ladies’s race? Full outcomes (when out there).
U.S. Monitor and Area Championships – Eugene, Oregon
There was just a little little bit of crossover with path operating.
It was simply three weeks in the past that Anna Gibson gained the Damaged Arrow Skyrace Vertical Kilometer and took second within the 23k. And now, Gibson, who additionally simply signed with the Brooks Beasts observe membership, ran a 4:11 1,500-meter within the prelims and adopted it up with a 4:09 private greatest within the closing spherical, inserting tenth.
That very same weekend three weeks in the past, Marybeth and Sam Chelanga have been each second on the Mount Washington Highway Race. The married couple completed 14th and ninth within the 10,000-meter observe race right here in 34:01 and 28:52.
Silverton Alpine 50k and Marathon – Silverton, Colorado
The Aravaipa Operating occasion topped Corinne Shalvoy and Nicholas Parton as 50k winners in 5:15 and 4:35, and Jaycie Thomsen and TJ David have been the marathon’s greatest in 3:53 and three:41. Full outcomes.
Kendall Mountain Run – Silverton, Colorado
Additionally an Aravaipa Operating occasion, this one goes 12 miles up and down 13,066-foot Kendall Mountain. Lara Hamilton gained the ladies’s race in 2:03, and Noah Williams repeated as males’s champ in 1:45. Full outcomes.
Whiterock Extremely 50k – Coon Rapids, Iowa
Lindsey Burton and Kevin Tiffany have been the 50 miler’s quickest in 11:17 and seven:59, and Elizabeth Krupicka and Jason Downing gained the 50k in 5:34 and 4:13. Full outcomes.
Buckeye Path 50k – Brecksville, Ohio
Stacy Billig went slightly below 5 hours with a 4:59 successful time, and Israel Merkle was simply over 4 hours with a 4:00 males’s successful time. Full outcomes.
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